The Next Morning,

Stairways.

Elsa had specifically reminded herself to set an alarm last night, JUST IN CASE, you know...so that Jack couldn't...embarrass her again by waking up early or something...but the thing was: Jack wasn't in the bedroom at all. 'Maybe he just fell asleep in the living room.' Elsa guessed.

She descended down the stairs, fresh out of the shower, in her bathrobe -which was swinging around FAR too much for her likings- and made her way through the living room. She suddenly stopped and noticed Jack sleeping on the sofa, she decided not to wake him up since it must have taken him hours to sleep last night (long story) and just continued to walk to the kitchen.

She entered the kitchen -which was a whole independent room- and went to sit by the counter. But she suddenly noticed that the trash bin...thing, was loaded with chocolate wrappers. Elsa deduced that such phenomenon could only take place due to two reasons: 1. Anna getting excited or 2. Anna getting stressed.

She further deduced that the second reason was just imaginary.

'So that means Anna was excited...-' Elsa paused her thoughts as realization hit her. She started blushing when yesterday's events came flooding back into her mind. 'So that's why Jack was sleeping on the sofa...he was too embarrassed to sleep in the bedroom with me...damn it! Why didn't I realize this sooner-'

"Why are you staring at the trash bin?"

Elsa jumped onto the kitchen counter in surprise like a cat, clearly not expecting someone to sneak up on her like that, again. She just stared in horror at the person who almost gave her two heart attacks in under the time period of three seconds. She took a few moments to relax...and then snapped. "Jack, why?!"

Jack flinched, he didn't intend to jumpscare her and make her jump onto the kitchen counter like that. And then he realized that she was in her bathrobe, so he decided to look away in order to reduce the awkwardness, but all that did was make the situation even more awkward. He didn't exactly know how to reply so he just opted for the simple way. "Sorry."

Why was it so awkward? I mean, as previously mentioned, they had been working and living together for months, which means, they probably had ended up in the current situation a million times before, so why was it so awkward NOW?

...and can someone please ask them why they were blushing like that? The tension in the atmosphere was broken when, out of nowhere, Anna happily skipped into the kitchen, humming to herself.

And then she stopped.

She looked at Jack and then shifted her eyes to look at her older sister. Her face went pale, when she noticed their positions and misunderstood the situation for something else.

"Umm...did I walk in at the wrong moment?" She managed to say, almost inaudibly, as she slowly started making her way back out of the kitchen. Elsa and Jack were apparently alive enough to answer that, "No!" They both shouted out at the same time, making Anna breath in relief and also inwardly huff at how quickly they denied.

Anna immediately raised an eyebrow. "...what were you doing then?" She asked the both of them, not even trying to be subtle. Elsa and Jack opened their mouth to say something, but immediately closed them, glanced at each other and then spoke at the same. "We were-discussing about the case."

Anna totally didn't buy it, but she refrained from saying anything, and they continued.

"Neighbours-" Elsa and Jack said at the same, prompting them to look at each other in surprise. Jack looked back at Anna and said, "We are going to pay our client a visit. His neighbours, to be more precise." He grabbed Elsa by the wrist and pulled her off the counter and out of the kitchen with him.

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8:30AM,

Back in the Bedroom.

Jack slipped on his suit in a hurry and strapped on his watch. Of course, he didn't forget to ruffle around with his hair. As soon as he was good to go, he looked for his partner. "Hurry up, Elsa."

"Relax, Jack. His neighbours aren't running away." Elsa said, as she put on her legendary hair pin. "Hmmm...no epic dialogues this time, I see."

They both walked out of their bedroom, as Jack replied. "The current situation doesn't call for one." He started walking ahead of her, as they descended the stairs. Elsa looked at Jack in confusion, when she found out that he wasn't going to the kitchen but was heading for the front door. "You don't wanna breakfast?" She suddenly asked him.

Jack turned around before he reached for the door, "We'll grab something on the way."

Elsa frowned. Jack was avoiding breakfast. That happened rarely. And by rarely, I mean, 0% of the time. Jack was always a mystery.

Well, 70% of the time, at least. And their current case was really affecting him, Elsa noticed. Him not liking 'cute kids' like Alex...him running off early in the morning from the house...him acting all sensitive and stuff around her...

'...actually, I think there's a different reason for the all the change in sensitivity.' She added.

"...alright." Elsa hesitantly agreed. Jack noticed the hesitation in her voice but kept quiet and just held the door open for her. Elsa walked out, followed by him.

They silently sat in the Ford Focus and drove off towards David's neighbourhood.

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In the Kitchen.

Anna just stood there, dumbfounded, surprised, in horror...whatever you call it. "Did they seriously leave?" She asked the air around her as she made her way to one of the windows and tried to find the white Ford Focus she had seen yesterday. She started to panic when she couldn't find the said car.

"Oh my god, they did leave! I shouldn't have walked into the kitchen like that...why can't I do anything the right way?!" She started pacing in the kitchen. "I'll need to apologize to them when they return."

Anna was getting stressed out. And she could only think of twothings to relieve her stress: 1. Talk to Kristoff or 2. Chocolate.

She first thought of calling Kristoff, but then realized that Kristoff must be preparing for Christmas with his family so that meant she-...well, you probably already know what happened next.

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A/N: And yes, Elsa invited Anna to live along with them and Anna didn't protest. Period.

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